A PowerPoint with 10 quiz questions on word classes. Multiple choice with the correct answer revealed at a click. covers verbs, adjectives, prepositions, nouns, similes, coordinators and subordinators etc... Suitable for KS 1 or lower KS 2 children. Ideal for starter activities or plenaries.

An example news report on an alien sighting. Useful resource to explain style and tone of a news report. Examples of direct and indirect speech. Suitable for guided reading - fact or opinion? Can be used as a writing model in teacher exposition. written on Microsoft Publisher. Includes a comprehension worksheet covering inference, retrieval, structure and purpose. Ideal for KS 2 children.

A worksheet with three differentiated activities on adding missing punctuation. Activity one is to to add capital letters and full stops. Activity two is to add commas in lists, capital letters and full stops and activity three is to add capital letters and the correct punctuation to demarcate the sentence type - exclamation marks, full stops or question marks. All the sentences are linked to a fairy tale theme. Written on a word document that can be edited. Suitable for KS1 or lower KS2.

A modelled informal letter written by the troll to his cousin warning him of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. A modelled character description on The Big Bad Wolf from fairy tales. Editable resources. Ideas for KS1 or lower KS2.

Exactly what are the three main sentence structures? How can you tell which is which? Where do I include commas? This Presentation should help you to answer these questions with more confidence. A PowerPoint to explain the features of the three main sentence structures - simple, compound and complex. Ideal as a teaching tool for Key Stage 2 children or as a presentation to parents or staff as part of an English workshop.

A list of different starter ideas for literacy. Covers grammar, punctuation and spelling. A Microsoft Word Document Ideal for KS 1 and 2

An extract for whole class teacher exposition on Microsoft Word that can be easily edited or highlighted on the white board. A plan on how to develop tension and mood within writing - effective punctuation, short sentences, repetition, varied sentence openers. Ideal for KS 2 particularly year 5 and 6

An example instructional text on what to take with you to the Scottish Highlands. Includes grammatical tasks and guided reading questions on literal retrieval and inference. Ideal for a modelled example in the teacher exposition with a focus on tone, style, purpose and audience. Suitable for guided reading tasks on retrieval and inference. A Microsoft Word Document that is easy to edit or highlight electronically. Links well to topics on travel and holiday destinations. Ideal for KS 1 or 2 children.

A ten/ fifteen minute class assembly liked to holidays around the world looking at 4 destinations - Caribbean, Alaska, South Africa and Scarborough in England. The play discusses weather and climate/ suitable clothing/ transport across the world and activities in the 4 different holiday destinations. Ideal for reception classes linking to lessons taught in these area including science - making cars. Some song suggestions.

Human body fact sheet for information Quiz assessment questions on Moving and growing. Glossary of topic words. Questions on the human skeleton. My muscles worksheet with vocabulary box to differentiate. Editable resources. Suitable for KS2.

A worksheet on shape and position questions relating to a shape card. Sets of questions on naming the shape, identifying lines of symmetry, right angles, sides and vertices and whether it is regular or irregular. A second set of questions on position - how many squares up, down, right and left moving onto coordinates and directional language. Editable resource. Suitable for KS1 or KS2.

A worksheet on relative clauses with 4 differentiated tasks. A Microsoft Word document. Ideal for KS 2 children - particularly year 5 and 6. Task 1 - identify relative clauses in sentences. Task 2 - add your own relative clauses to the main clauses. Task 3 - add your own main clauses to the relative clauses provided. Task 4 - write your own sentences using the relative pronouns.

A PowerPoint presentation on the various word classes - nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and determiners. Ideal for KS1 and 2. Includes activities and a Quiz on word classes. The slides could be printed as a visual display. Two work sheets on Microsoft word differentiated on word classes. A lesson plan to help teach the activities. A set of large words to organise into a sentence.

Differentiated worksheets on adding speech punctuation to conversations and sentences. 2 Microsoft Word documents that can be edited and amended. 6 sentences to add inverted commas and other speech punctuation to. A conversation between father and daughter to punctuate - could be used to convert into a play-script. Suitable for KS 2 children. Focuses on using speech punctuation correctly including commas, and to identify different speakers amongst the narrative.

Comprehension questions on the text 'There's a Viking in My Bed' By Jeremy Armstrong. Mixture of 14 skill based questions - retrieval, inference, language, structure, prediction and evaluation. Ideal for KS 1/2 Suitable for guided reading or English reading assessment.

8 various story openers covering the different genres. Tasks linked to the openers for children to complete in guided work or independently. Ideal for KS 2 children. Microsoft Word Document Focus on language and sentence effects.

A fun play script based on two children travelling back in time to Ancient Egypt to find out what life was really like. They meet a scribe, various workers and even the Pharaoh. Full of historical information to share in an assembly or as a fun way of teaching history through drama. Editable resource suitable for year 2 - 4.

A comprehension based on a short story in first person. 6 literal retrieval questions 5 inference and deduction questions 3 prediction questions 2 summarising questions 3 language questions 3 structure questions 6 evaluative questions. A Microsoft Word Document easy to edit. This text can also be used as an example first person account for modelling in class. Ideal for KS 2 children - specifically year 4.

A poem about the body and what it can do with a comprehension sheet. Ten questions largely focused on retrieval and language with a range of formats e.g. true or false, circling the correct options or ticking boxes etc… This resource links to the human body in science and ‘All About Me’ topic. Answer sheet provided. Ideal for KS1 or lower KS2 children.

A worksheet with four different activities on identifying common homophones. Activity one - to find pairs of homophones. Activity two - to circle the correct spelling option in sentences. Activity three - to work out the missing homophones by solving the sentence clues. Activity four - to think of your own sentence clues for some common homophones. The sheets are editable. A suitable resource for Year 2, 3 and 4.